Volume : IX, Issue : I, January - 2020

ROLE OF HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY LUNG IN PATIENTS WITH BREATHLESSNESS ATTRIBUTED TO PRIMARY PULMONARY PATHOLOGY AND ITS COMPARISION WITH CHEST X RAYS

Dr. Saurabh Bansal, Dr. Mahin Kapadia, Dr. Ravinder Kumar Kundu

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Dyspnoea/eathlessness is defined as a “subjective experience of eathing discomfort that consists of qualitatively distinct sensations that vary in intensity”1. Pulmonary causes include obstructive, restrictive, alveolar and airway pathologies. The most common obstructive causes are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. Restrictive lung disease includes extra–pulmonary etiologies like obesity, spinal deformities or chest wall deformities, and intrinsic pulmonary etiologies such as interstitial lung disease, interstitial fiosis, pneumoconiosis, granulomatous disease or collagen vascular disease. Alveolar pathologies include chronic pneumonia and oncho–alveolar carcinoma. Airway diseases include chronic onchitis and onchiectasis2, 3.In our study we excluded non respiratory causes like cardiac, neurogenic, metabolic causes & patients with neoplastic lung mass. In a suspected pulmonary pathology as a cause of eathlessness, a chest–X ray is often the first radiological investigation. The conventional chest X–ray is cheap and easily accessible but limited in scope and sensitivity. High–resolution thin section (HRCT) is far superior for detection, characterization and demonstration of the pulmonary interstitium, air spaces and airways4.In our study done on 80 patients, HRCT is recognized as more sensitive and specific than chest radiography for the evaluation of patients with eathlessness.

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ROLE OF HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY LUNG IN PATIENTS WITH BREATHLESSNESS ATTRIBUTED TO PRIMARY PULMONARY PATHOLOGY AND ITS COMPARISION WITH CHEST X RAYS, Dr. Saurabh Bansal, Dr. Mahin Kapadia, Dr. Ravinder Kumar Kundu INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-1 | January-2020

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